2002.01.20
2002.01.19
the cat is getting more and more confident. today i let him out of the room and let him wander around the living room. he’s still skittish, but that’s a new area and i’m not too suprised. i’ve been putting a baby door i originally got for killian up in my door and it seems he’s getting used to people walking by and the general noise and smell of the place. (note: the place doesn’t smell per se, but cats have a different sense of smell than we do).
i’ve also been thinking of a few names. the current leaders are keatting, darwin, and kitwik. somehow i think he’s going to be kitwik. renee was saying i should name him sir bartholomew of douglas. uh, no.
saw blackhawk down tonight with scott and renee, too. it’s a good movie, but don’t expect to come out feeling good or excited. in fact you might come out of there a bit confused and agitated. i can’t imagine how people who have lived their lives with no real understanding of the military will react. the movie is, in many ways, an attempt to say that being in the military is not something that can be explained, it has to be experienced. i guess ridley scott felt that a movie is probably (and hopefully) the closest most people will have to come to war.
i came out of it thoughtful. i was amazed that for the almost 24 hours our troops were out in mogadishu, with the thousands of local militia hounding them and shooting at them, that we lost only 19 people. scott pointed out that the actual casualties would have been significantly higher, but even so. 19. i was also suprised at how confusing communications between the troops (on the ground and in the air) and the operations HQ were. it seems that it would take more than just a helicopter getting shot down to throw the whole thing into disarray. i’m sure they’ve fixed this problem.
it also made clear to me that we need to learn alot more about urban combat.
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